In the sixth episode, we’re joined by Dr.Immanuel Darkwa from Trinity College, Dublin. From his experience studying abroad and working in the industry, Dr.Darkwa started a project on the field of "Global experiential learning" which involved Irish and Tanzanian students.


In our conversation with Dr.Darkwa, he shared how this project could have the students create a social impact on the local community through learning. And as well the difficulties they've encountered through the process.

(Music: «A New Beginning» from Bensound.com)

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Inside education and society

Ep.6 - Immaneul Darkwa: Global experiential learning - THE SONAR INSTITUTE

Recorded July 2nd, 2025.

46th Annual Memorial Lecture
Barbarous Cuisine: T. S. Eliot in Ireland (1936 & 1940)
Fran Brearton - Queen’s University Belfast
Chaired by Patrick Query, T.S. Eilot Society President

Fran Brearton is Professor of Modern Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast.
Her books include The Great War in Irish Poetry, Reading Michael Longley, and, as editor, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry and Incorrigibly Plural: Louis MacNeice and his Legacy. She is a former president of the Robert Graves Society and appears regularly on BBC R4’s ‘In Our Time’ to discuss modern poetry. She was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2018.

Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

46th T.S. Eliot Society Annual Memorial Lecture - Barbarous Cuisine: T.S. Eliot in Ireland 1936-1940

This talk delivered by Professor René Provost explored important lessons on the promises and limits of non-state justice in conflict zones, specifically looking at the Kurdish-dominated Democratic Autonomous Administration of North East Syria.

Zones of armed conflict are spaces of disorder, which state and non-state belligerents alike aim to curtail through law. Starting in 2014, the Kurdish-dominated Democratic Autonomous Administration of North East Syria established its own courts and enacted its own laws, in civil as well as criminal matters. For a decade, this unrecognised system of administration of justice has struggled to bring social order to this war-afflicted territory. 

Meet our speaker and chair 

René Provost Ad.E. FRSC is the James McGill Professor of Justice Beyond the State at the Faculty of Law of McGill University. He joined the Faculty of Law of McGill University in 1994, where he was Associate Dean (Academic) from 2001 to 2003 and the founding Director of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism from 2005 to 2010. Professor Provost teaches Public International Law, International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Environmental Law, Legal Anthropology, and various courses in legal theory.  His latest book is 'Rebel Courts – The Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents' (Oxford University Press 2021), winner of the 2022 ICON-S Prize for Best Book in Public Law and the 2023 American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit for Creative Scholarship. 

Robert Lowe is Deputy Director of the LSE Middle East Centre and Co-Convenor of the Kurdish Studies Series at the LSE Middle East Centre. His main research interest is Kurdish politics, with particular focus on the Kurdish movements in Syria. He is Co-Editor of the Kurdish Studies Series, published by I.B. Tauris.



Kurdish Justice in Northeast Syria

Recorded July 22nd 2025.

An in conversation event with Prof David Kinley (The University of Sydney) and Prof Blanaid Clarke (TCD) organised by the school of Law.

Who cares when corporations kill? The remarkable story behind suing one of the worlds largest asbestos companies for transnational negligence.

In Conversation - Professor David Kinley, Chair of Human Rights Law, Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney hosted by Professor Blanaid Clarke, McCann FitzGerald Chair of Corporate Law, Trinity College Dublin, Convenor of the School's Corporate Law, Governance and Capital Markets Research Group.

Professor Kinley is the author of In a Rain of Dust: Death, Deceit, and the Lawyer who Busted Big Asbestos (2025).

Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

Who cares when corporations kill?

Recorded June 14, 2025.

David Dickson (Trinity College Dublin): 'The social backdrop: Eighteenth-century Dubliners'

Linzi Simpson: ‘Smock Alley: the rediscovery of Dublin’s oldest surviving theatre’

Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

Hibernian Shakespeare - Session 1

Recorded June 14, 2025.

Tara Lyons (Illinois State University): ‘A Colonial Collection? English Drama in the First Duke of Ormonde’s Irish Libraries’

Andrew Murphy (Trinity College Dublin): ‘Shakespeare, the Charlemont Library and the Politics of Identity’

Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

Hibernian Shakespeare - Session 2

Recorded June 14, 2025.

Eilís Smyth (Trinity College Dublin): ‘The Smock Alley Promptbooks in the 21st Century’

Madeleine Saidenberg: (Worcester College, Oxford): ‘Hamlet in Irish Wool: Fashioning an Anglo-Irish Shakespeare, 1721’

Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

Hibernian Shakespeare - Session 3

Recorded June 14, 2025.

Conrad Brunström (Maynooth University): ‘Shakespeare and Sheridan's Coriolanus: Who banished who?’

Ceola Daly (St Cross College, Oxford): ‘“Ó Moeloins” Malone: Ireland's Most Famous Forgotten Shakespearean’

Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

Hibernian Shakespeare - Session 4

Recorded June 14, 2025.

Emer McHugh (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘National Questions: Shakespeare and Ireland studies, and where we are now'

Final Round Table: Andrew Murphy (Trinity College Dublin), Edel Semple (University College Cork), Ramona Wray (Queen’s University Belfast), Stephen O’Neill (Maynooth University)

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Hibernian Shakespeare - Session 5

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